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==Criticism==
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Critics charge that the LDS doctrine of a "premortal existence" is unChristian or unBiblical, and therefore false.
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===Source(s) of the Criticism===
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==Response==
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A summary of the argument against the criticism.
 
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===FAIR web site===
 
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*FAIR Topical Guide: [http://www.fairlds.org/apol/ai005.html Pre-mortal life]
 
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*Barry Robert Bickmore, ''Restoring the Ancient Church,'' [http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/restoring/chap03.html Chapter 3]
 
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* Allen Wyatt, "[http://www.fairlds.org/apol/morm201/m20104.html Preexistence and the Second Estate]," Mormonism 201 project.
 
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Latest revision as of 23:51, 29 April 2024


The Mormon doctrine of "premortal existence"


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Non-Mormon belief in a pre-mortal existence


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Modern revelation regarding a pre-mortal existence


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Biblical support for a pre-mortal existence


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Source(s) of the criticism
Critical sources
  • Richard Abanes, Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism (Harvest House Publishers: 2005). 130. ( Index of claims )
  • Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson, Mormonism 101. Examining the Religion of the Latter-day Saints (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 2000), 67-69. ( Index of claims )
  • “Persons and Pre-Mortality: The Mormon Doctrine of Preexistence,” in James Patrick Holding, The Mormon Defenders: How Latter-day Saint Apologists Misinterpret the Bible (self-published, 2001), at 53—61, with related endnotes at 144—145.
Past responses
  • Barry R. Bickmore, Restoring the Ancient Church: Joseph Smith and Early Christianity (Redding, CA: Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, 1999), [citation needed].
  • Barry Robert Bickmore, Restoring the Ancient Church: Joseph Smith and Early Christianity, 2nd edition (Redding, CA: Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, 2013), [citation needed].
  • Richard R. Hopkins Biblical Mormonism (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers, 1994), [citation needed].
  • Truman G. Madsen in Eternal Man (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1966), [citation needed].
  • Joseph Fielding Smith in Man, His Origin and Destiny (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1954), [citation needed].
  • Boyd K. Packer in Our Father's Plan (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1984), [citation needed].
  • Brent L. Top The Life Before (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988), [citation needed].

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